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Cyclostremellini

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Pyramidellidae

Rank
  
Tribe

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Pyramidelloidea

Subfamily
  
Odostomiinae

Similar
  
Pyramidella, Pyramidellidae, Heterobranchia

Cyclostremellini is a minor tribe, a taxonomic grouping, of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks, in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

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Taxonomy

Cyclostremellinae has been a subfamily one of eleven recognised in the Pyramidellidae (according to the taxonomy of Ponder & Lindberg, 1997), and according to Schander, van Aartsen and Corgan (1999) it comprises two genera, Cyclostremella and Pseudoskenella.

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), this subfamily has been downgraded to the rank of tribe Cyclostremellini in the subfamily Odostomiinae.

Genera

Genera within the tribe Cyclostremellini include:

  • Cyclostremella Bush, 1897
  • Cyclostremella californica Bartsch, 1907
  • Cyclostremella concordia Bartsch, 1920
  • Cyclostremella conradia Bartsch, 1920
  • Cyclostremella humilis Bartsch, 1897
  • Pseudoskenella Ponder, 1973
  • Pseudoskenella depressa Ponder, 1973

    • References

    Cyclostremellini Wikipedia
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